The need to find meaning...is as real as the need for trust and for love, for relations with other human beings.

the experience of having brothers and sisters, born of the same parents, sleeping under the same roof, eating at the same table, is an inescapable, delightful and repelling, desired and abhorred part of each child's life.

Motherhood is a biological fact, while fatherhood is a social invention.

What the world needs is not romantic lovers who are sufficient unto themselves, but husbands and wives who live in communities, relate to other people, carry on useful work and willingly give time and attention to their children.

My grandmother wanted me to get a good education, so she kept me as far away from schools as possible.

From a hundred cultures, [there is] one culture which does what no culture has ever done before-gives a place to every human gift.

One of the most dangerous things that can happen to a child is to kill or torture an animal and get away with it.